§ Mr. Masonasked the Postmaster-General, (1) if he will publish a list of the administrative, executive and technical officers of his Department with salaries of more than £2,000 per annum who on resigning or retiring over the past ten years have taken up posts with industrial firms, signifying which of these have done so within two years of leaving the Civil Service, in cases requiring the approval of his Department;
(2) if he will publish a list of the administrative, executive and technical officers of his Department with salaries of more than £2,000 per annum who on resigning or retiring over the past 10 years have taken up posts with industrial firms, stating the firms which they joined within two years of leaving the Civil Service, in cases requiring the approval of his Department.
§ Miss PikeThe following table lists the number of officers by grades for whom applications to take up posts with industrial firms have been approved within the last 10 years:
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Year Grade of office 1955 1 Assistant Engineer-in-Chief. 1957 1 Deputy Director General.
1960 1 Director General. 1962 1 Regional Director. The firms and undertakings concerned in these applications were (in alphabetical order) as follows:
- Aberdare Electric Co. Ltd.
- English Electric Co. Ltd.
- Ericsson Telephones Ltd.
- Fisher and Ludlow Ltd.
There is no record whether the appointments for which approval was given were in all cases actually made, and there is no requirement for officers to obtain approval to take up posts when they have been retired from the public service for more than two years.